{"id":815,"date":"2017-11-28T02:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2017-11-28T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:17:03","slug":"consolidated-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Consolidated Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/3814706?start=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/3814706?start=0<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What is AWS Organizations<\/h3>\n<p>AWS Organizations is an account management service that enabled you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.<\/p>\n<p>Available in 2 feature sets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consolidated Billing<\/li>\n<li>All Features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations.png 804w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/organizations-150x85.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OU = Organizational Unit<\/p>\n<h3>Consolidated Billing<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-817\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing.png 803w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/consolidated-billing-150x71.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The paying account is independent and cannot access the resources of the other accounts.<\/li>\n<li>All linked accounts are independent<\/li>\n<li>Currently, there is a limit of 20 linked accounts for consolidated billing.\n<ul>\n<li>More can be added &#8211; contact AWS to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Billing Alerts<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>When monitoring is enabled on the paying account, the billing data for all linked accounts is included.<\/li>\n<li>You can still create billing alerts for each linked account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>CloudTrail<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Per Linked account per region<\/li>\n<li>Can consolidate logs using an S3 bucket\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on CloudTrail in the paying account<\/li>\n<li>Create a bucket policy that allows cross-account access<\/li>\n<li>Turn on CloudTrail in the other accounts and use the bucket in the paying account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Consolidated Billing Advantages<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>One bill per AWS account<\/li>\n<li>Very easy to track charges and allocate costs<\/li>\n<li>Volume pricing discount.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Reserved Instances<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-818\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri.png 793w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cb-ri-150x86.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Best Practices<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Always enable MFA on the root account<\/li>\n<li>Always use a strong and complex password on root account<\/li>\n<li>The paying account should be used for BILLING PURPOSES ONLY!\n<ul>\n<li>Do not deploy resources in to a paying account!!<\/li>\n<li>You can, but don&#8217;t! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Exam Tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Consolidated billing allows you to get colume discounts on all your accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Unused Reserved Instances for EC2 are applied across the group.<\/li>\n<li>CloudTrail is on a per-account, per-region bases, but all can be aggregated into a single S3 bucket in the paying account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate\/learn\/v4\/t\/lecture\/3814706?start=0 What is AWS Organizations AWS Organizations is an account management service that enabled you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Available in 2 feature sets Consolidated Billing All Features OU = Organizational Unit Consolidated Billing The paying account is independent and cannot access the resources of ..<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/?p=815\" title=\"read more...\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-web-services-aws","category-billing-and-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiki.thomasandsofia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}